Pathological crying (PC) is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by an excessive tendency towards crying after brain damage. To elucidate the role of serotonin neurotransmission for PC, a pilot study was performed using single photon emission computed tomography with [123I]beta-CIT to estimate central (midbrain/pons and thalamus/hypothalamus) serotonin transporter (SERT) densities in 15 st...

Without language competence, cry is a special way that infant express individual needs and response to outside. In this paper, we chose two infants as examinee, measuring fundamental frequency of crying sound section. We developed speech signal analysis platform, and through the analysis we found that infant have falling tone, flat tone, rising tone, rising-falling tone before three month, and ...

Previous researches of the prelingual period indicated that primal cry and the first cry represent the inception of verbal communication. The aim of this work was to study qualitative characteristics of crying of newborns from risk pregnancies and newborns from regular pregnancies in the function of prediction of verbal communication development. The research was carried out on the sample of N=...

Current evolutionary theories regarding the nature of hormonal responses to a variety of salient social stimuli are incomplete in yielding evidentiary support for their assertions. This study offers more nuanced evidence for the Tend-andBefriend model of sex differences in responses to social stimuli. Participants were randomly assigned to a mortality salience prime or a control condition prior...

I defend Factualism about reasons for belief: the view that facts and only facts, including facts of the world around us, are our reasons for belief. The greatest obstacle for such a view concerns cases in which subjects are mistaken about the facts, such as illusion and hallucination. It is natural to say, in a normal case, that John’s reason for believing that the baby is hungry is the fact t...

Semantic predicates is true, refers, is about, has the truth conditional content that p and so forthapply to various items, most centrally to natural language expressions and to mental states and events (types and tokens). For example, both the sentence "The cat is crying" and the belief that the cat is crying are about the cat and possess the truth conditional content that the cat is crying. I...

The purpose of this study was to examine preschool children's prosocial judgments and their reasoning for prosocial episodes. One hundred children were individually asked to do prosocial judgments and their reasoning for three prosocial episodes: helping, sharing, and comforting. In the episode there was a crying or a normal facial expression of a person in distress under the condition of high ...

This study examined a largely overlooked, yet potentially important, association between empathy and distress in cry responding. The cry stimulus included a 1-min-long video clip of a 4-week-old, crying, male infant. Participants reported their dispositional empathy and distress, perceived aversiveness of the cry stimulus, response emotions, and intention to intervene with the crying infant. Em...

Do victims’ emotions underlie preschoolers’ moral judgment abilities? Study 1 asked preschoolers (n072) to judge actions directed at characters who could and could not feel hurt and who did and did not cry. These judgments took into account only the nature of the action, not the nature of the victim. To further investigate how victims’ emotions might impact children’s moral judgments, Study 2 p...

UNLABELLED Theme: Parenting/parenthood. INTRODUCTION In Western societies, an infant's crying often causes anxiety in parents. Educational and empowerment paths of parenthood could be useful to overcome these difficulties (Hiscock 2004). AIMS Design and implement a pilot test of an educational path with a group of infants' (0-3 months) parents to support them in the acceptance of their chil...